London :: Printed [by Thomas Snodham] for Richard More, and are to be sould at his shop in S. Dunstanes Church-yard,
1614.
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Pastoral poetry, English.
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"Englands Helicon. Or The Muses harmony." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A16274.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 15, 2024.
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Another of Astrophell.
THE Nightingale so soone as Aprill bringethVnto her rested sense a perfect waking:While late bare earth, proud of new clothing springeth,Sings out her woes, a thorne her Song-booke making.And mournefully bewailingHer throate in tunes expresseth,What griefe her breast oppresseth,For Tereus force, on her chast will preuailing.
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Oh Philomela faire, oh take some gladnes,That here is iuster cause of plaintfull sadnes.Thine earth now springs, mine fadeth:Thy throne without, my thorne my hart inuadeth.
Alas, she hath no other cause of languishBut Tereus loue, on her by strong hand wroken:Wherein she suffering all her spirits languish,Full woman-like complaines, her will was broken.But I, who daily crauing,Cannot haue to content me:Haue more cause to lament me,Sith wanting is more woe, then too much hauing.Oh Philomela faire, oh take some gladnes,That heere is iuster cause of plaintfull sadnes,Thine earth now springs, mine fadeth:Thy thorne without, my thorne my hart inuadeth.
FINIS.
S. Phil. Sidney.
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